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find all c and cpp files except the ones in the unit-test and android subdirectories

works only in zsh, requires EXTENDED_GLOB to be set.
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ls **/*.c(|pp)~(unit-test|android)/*

bst · 2012-04-27 07:43:22 8
Sort files by size
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ls -l | sort +4n for ascending order or ls -l | sort +4nr for descending order

zubair · 2012-04-30 02:52:31 4
List visible files ordered by modification date and shows date in full iso format
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ls -tl --time-style=full-iso

DavidAlfonso · 2012-05-02 16:33:23 3
export iPad, iPhone App list to txt file
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ls "`defaults read com.apple.itunes NSNavLastRootDirectory`/iTunes/iTunes Music/Mobile Applications/" > filepath

bunam · 2012-05-04 15:13:31 11
List all symlinks and see where they link to
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find -type l | xargs ls -l

samer · 2012-05-15 22:34:51 3
Get ls to only show directories under .

Cleaner than adding -p to ls ( eg ls -alp ), this will tell ls to only output directories in the file listing, whilst maintaining all the usual other column elements of the ls output.
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ls -al | grep ^d

christo · 2012-05-21 17:39:23 6
Get the file name having biggest size in directory.
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ls -l| sort +4n|tail -1| awk '{print $NF}'

pritishunix · 2012-05-25 06:35:39 3
Simulate a tree command
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ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'

Koobiac · 2012-05-30 14:50:13 3
Sort files by size

ls -al gives all files, sort +4n sorts by 5th field numerically
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ls -al | sort +4n

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:20:05 17

Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

This requires a version of GNU find that supports the -exec {} + action, but it seems more straightforward than the versions already posted. Show Sample Output

find . -type f -exec ls -shS {} + | head -10

erichamion · 2012-07-28 17:21:46 3

Remove / delete file with ? or special characters in filename

Code to delete file with gremlins/special characters/unicode in file name. Use ls -i to find the INODE number corresponding to the file and then delete it using that find statement. detailed here: http://www.arsc.edu/arsc/support/howtos/nonprintingchars/ Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls
?????D?P?test.txt
$ rm ./
^_?^H^H?D^\P^Ctest.txt  
$ ls -b
\037\213\b\b\240D\034P\003test.txt 
$ rm \037*
rm: cannot remove `037*': No such file or directory
$ ls -il
total 8
86870 -rw-r--r-- 1 mememe mememe   0 2012-08-03 14:38 ?????D?P?test.txt
$ find * $ -type d -prune $ -o -inum 86870 -exec rm -i {} \;
rm: remove regular empty file `\037\213\b\b\240D\034P\003test.txt'? y
```
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ls -il; find * $ -type d -prune $ -o -inum <NUM> -exec rm -i {} \;

yingw · 2012-08-04 00:22:33 10
Using Grep & Xargs to clean folders

In the example suppose we want to move all *.rar files in the current folder to a backupfolder
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ls | grep -Ze ".*rar" | xargs -d '\n' -I {} mv {} backup-folder

crisboot · 2012-08-06 09:07:03 8
Random (sfw, 1920x1080) wallpaper from wallbase.cc
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wget --no-use-server-timestamps $(curl $(curl http://wallbase.cc/random/23/eqeq/1920x1080/0/100/20 | grep 'wallpaper/' | awk -F'"' '{print $2}' | head -n1) | grep -A4 bigwall | grep img | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'); feh --bg-center $(ls -1t | head -n1)

yosh · 2012-08-14 22:06:27 3
Find latest file in a directory
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ls -rt | tail -n 1

m0rf · 2012-09-06 07:07:35 5
Find removed files still in use via /proc

Accidentally deleted some file while used by a program ? (Eg: a song) Use this command to find the file handle and recover using cp /proc/pid/fd/filehandle /new/recoverd-file.ext Show Sample Output
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```
to@tolaptop:~$ ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep 'deleted'| grep "\/proc.*\.mp3"

lr-x------ 1 totti root 64 2012-09-13 14:24 /proc/3275/fd/27 -> /home/to/Downloads/07. AAA.mp3.part (deleted)
```
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ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep 'deleted'| grep "\/proc.*\file-name-part"

totti · 2012-09-13 09:54:16 5

List all symbolic links in current directory

Pretty lame to rely on grep and "\->"? Maybe. But it works ;) Show Sample Output

ls -l | grep "\->"

joernfranz · 2012-09-20 12:48:36 5

Changes dir to $1 and executes ls. As simple as useful

Changes dir to $1 and executes ls. As simple as useful Show Sample Output
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```
# cd /etc/redhat-lsb/
lsb_killproc  lsb_log_message  lsb_pidofproc  lsb_start_daemon
```
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cd () { command cd $1 && ls ; }

olopopo · 2012-09-27 08:49:07 4
SAR - Get the monthly queue length average using sar -q for both the runq-sz and plist-sz.
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ls /var/log/sa/sa[0-9]*|xargs -I '{}' sar -q -f {}| awk '/Average/'|awk '{runq+=$2;plist+=$3}END{print "average runq-sz:",runq/NR; print "average plist-sz: "plist/NR}'

omatictost · 2012-10-25 17:04:48 7
Deleting directory recurcive. Directories will be deleled when empty or contains only .svn subdirectory

svn must be 1.7
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for I in $(find . -depth -type d -not -path "*/.svn*" -print) ; do N="$(ls -1A ${I} | wc -l)"; if [[ "${N}" -eq 0 || "${N}" -eq 1 && -n $(ls -1A | grep .svn) ]] ; then svn rm --force "${I}"; fi ; done

olekhy · 2012-11-26 23:53:45 4
ls -altr | grep ^d
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ls -altr | grep ^d

RedFox · 2012-11-28 17:02:11 4
list files other than, those, where you know, part of the name (e.g. file extension)

works nice if you're only interested in files that are completed downloading from a torrent
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ls -l !(*.part)

quacky · 2012-12-07 23:07:53 4
ls sort by human readable size (redhat)
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ls -lSr

unixmonkey44306 · 2012-12-14 14:39:00 4
How to find all open files by a process in Solaris 10

Executing pfiles will return a list of all descriptors utilized by the process We are interested in the S_IFREG entries since they are pointing usually to files In the line, there is the inode number of the file which we use in order to find the filename. The only bad thing is that in order not to search from / you have to suspect where could possibly be the file. Improvements more than welcome. lsof was not available in my case Show Sample Output
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```
user@machine# for i in `pfiles 25925|grep S_IFREG|awk '{print $5}'|awk -F":" '{print $2}'`; do find /path/tmp -inum $i |xargs ls -lah; done
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 910 Jan 26  2012 /path/tmp/file1.prm
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 6.3K Jan 20 06:30 /path/tmp/file2.rpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 86K Jan 23 23:34 /path/tmp/file3.log
-rwxrw-r-- 1 user group 65 Dec 26 07:27 /path/tmp/file4.pcr
```
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for i in `pfiles pid|grep S_IFREG|awk '{print $5}'|awk -F":" '{print $2}'`; do find / -inum $i |xargs ls -lah; done

giorger · 2013-01-24 13:57:19 4
cd Nst subdir
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cd $(ls -1 | sed -n '<N>p')

davidp670 · 2013-01-29 22:16:57 4
Count open file handles for a specific user ID
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for x in `ps -u 500 u | grep java | awk '{ print $2 }'`;do ls /proc/$x/fd|wc -l;done

akashrpatel · 2013-02-02 20:29:31 5
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Print all 256 colors for testing TERM or for a quick reference

This is super fast and an easy way to test your terminal for 256 color support. Unlike alot of info about changing colors in the terminal, this uses the ncurses termcap/terminfo database to determine the escape codes used to generate the colors for a specific TERM. That means you can switch your terminal and then run this to check the real output. $ tset xterm-256color at any rate that is some super lean code! Here it is in function form to stick in your .bash_profile aa_256 () { ( x=`tput op` y=`printf %$((${COLUMNS}-6))s`; for i in {0..256}; do o=00$i; echo -e ${o:${#o}-3:3} `tput setaf $i;tput setab $i`${y// /=}$x; done ) } From my bash_profile: http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

Multi-thread any command

For instance: $ find . -type f -name '*.wav' -print0 |xargs -0 -P 3 -n 1 flac -V8 will encode all .wav files into FLAC in parallel. Explanation of xargs flags: -P [max-procs]: Max number of invocations to run at once. Set to 0 to run all at once [potentially dangerous re: excessive RAM usage]. -n [max-args]: Max number of arguments from the list to send to each invocation. -0: Stdin is a null-terminated list. I use xargs to build parallel-processing frameworks into my scripts like the one here: http://pastebin.com/1GvcifYa

An alternative to: python -m SimpleHTTPServer for Arch Linux

An alternative to: python -m SimpleHTTPServer for Arch Linux source: http://archlinux.me/dusty/2010/01/15/simplehttpserver-in-python-3/

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Flush DNS cache in MacOS 10.5

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

generate random password

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Extract icons from windows exe/dll

wrestool can be found in icoutils (http://www.nongnu.org/icoutils)

a simple bash one-liner to create php file and call php function

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